Dr. Schlessinger quits

So she quit because she said a word that gets repeated ad nauseum on rap songs every day?

 

Dr. Laura = N-word

 

I love how demonizing the word just makes it more and more powerful of a slur. If you use it colloquially more often, it loses a bunch of the original sting.

 

I like to keep people down. besides, it gets auto-edited here anyways.

 

The two most offensive words in the modern venacular are what.

"the n-word"
and
"the c-word"

so when you use it, you mean biz.

 

This is the best news of the month.

 

I've listened to her and she's fucking terrible.

Even though I'm generally a very conservative person in my own values and the advice I'd give, I've generally found her advice and commentary terrible. She didn't lose her first amendment rights, she lost her ability to get paid to talk because what she said was grossly stupid, poor personal advice, and poor commentary that doesn't even accurately reflect the views of social conservatives as I see them.

 

First Amendment says one cannot be legally prosecuted for speech, writing, etc. It does NOT mean one is immune from criticism. Even really harsh criticism. Schlesinger knows as much about the First Amendment as she does about variations in human sexuality. Nothing.

 

good. she was a bitch anyway

 

What if you happen to tune in to a radio station where they're playing rap songs that say "N-----" every other line, not realizing that this kind of language is being used . . . Is that also comparing apples to Chryslers?

This is the silliest debate in the world, and it goes on and on. Black kids in the inner cities all over America refer to each other as "N-----" and it's perfectly fine, but let a white person use the word and all hell breaks loose.

 

Your comparing yourself to inner-city black kids now?

 

Tisk tisk. Two wrongs don't make a right.

If the fake doctor hadn't broken the mold for right-wing female haters with sour faces, we wouldn't have Nancy Grace now.

 

My wife listens to her and has told me she advocates for more traditional gender roles... mom stays at home and raises kids etc... and I am all for that. Not saying that it *has* to be that way... just that I think that the family unit may function a bit more efficiently in that configuration.

 

So, should radio hosts imitate the worst street lingo or (shock!) strive to set a better example?

Incidentally it was not just the n-bombs. The caller complained about her white husband's relatives racist "jokes" and Schlesinger basically said shut up and don't be so sensitive. The caller talked about the "soft racism" of neighbors asking "What do black people think about X?" as though every African-American thought the same and Schlesinger basically said shut up, racism is just you imagination.

As to advocating traditional roles, why then doesn't she live them? Just another hypocrite. And it's not just so called traditional roles, she hates gays, she blames women if their husbands have affairs, condems extramarital sex for women but not men, etc.

Of course none of this means her free speech was violated. Maybe she just thinks she can get more money elsewhere.

 

I Beg To Differ. Even though they bleep it out on the Radio, its damn easy to tell what they're saying. Along with a lot of other words. To Illustrate my point:


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